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Rossini And His School (" The Great Musicians"). By H.

Suther- land Edwards. (Sampson Low and Co.)—We cannot say that Rossini's life is comparable in point of interest for the general public to many biographies of men of less......

An Elementary Course Of Practical Physics. By A. M....

M.A., F.R.A.S.—The great attention now given to science on the modern side of all good schools is a sufficient reason for Mr. Worth- ington's excellent brochure. All scientific......

The Collected Works Of Tames Maccullagh, Ll.d., Edited By...

H. Sellett, B.D., and Samuel Haughton, A.13., M.D. (Hodges and Figgie, Dublin ; Longmans, London), making a volume in the "Dublin Univbraity Press Series," consist almost......

Literary Remains Of The Late Professor Theodore...

and II. (W. H. Allen.)—The late Professor Goldstiicker, who died in 1872, a victim to overwork, was not only an eminent Sanscrit scholar, but was also intimately acquainted with......

Professor H. Morley Has Added A Fifth And Completing Volume

to his "Library of English Literature," under the title of Sketches of Larger Works in English Verse and Prose" (Cassell and Co.) He begins with " Beowulf " and "Brut," among......

Ovid's Pesti. Edited With Notes And Indices By G. H.

Hallam, M.A. (Macmillan.)—Every scholar knows well that Ovid's Fastiia a particularly difficult poem, teeming with obscure allusions and strangely involved constructions, which......